Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-27
A TIDAL WAVE.
RIKAEgABLg Rise or TEE WATER
In ALBEMARLE SOUND.
feints Washed Ashore Streets Sab
merged Found Dead-An Epidemic
Of Measles.
lspecIaI lelerram % ihc pIspatch.

has been received here of q tidal wave
on Albemarle sound aud Edenton bay,
which caused a remarkable rise in the
tide. At Avoca the great shad-seines
were washed ashore and SO covered
with sand that the entire day was con-
sumed in digging them out. Boats
were drifted and considerable damage
caused at Edenton. The streets by the
water side were submerged.
Thompson Snodgass, an aged citizen
OF Durham county, was found dead in
Now-Hope creek. He is supposed to
have died of heart-disease and fallen
into the stream, which is very shallow.
The family made search for him, and
his daughter discovered the body.
Yesterday the tobacco-packing house
of Walter Hunt, near Durham, was
burned, with 1900 pounds of tobacco.
No insurance.
Yesterday Major Lolita, prominent
resident of Durham county, died OF
paralysis. He was stricken with that
disease in a store at Durham few days
since.
This morning General JohnJ. White
head died at his home in this city. He
WIS native of Duplin county, and was
widely known in the State as an insu-
rance agent.
The incorporators of the Atlanta,
Asheville and Baltimore railway met at
Asheyille to-day. r. w. Powell, re-
preventative of q wealthy syndicate,
made a proposition to take the charter
and construct the road. 1t Is said that
this line will certainly be built.
GENERAL NOTES.
The Carolina Central Railroad Com
rany has sued Rutherford county for
S27 GOO principal and $3.50 accrued
interest on bonds OF that road (then the
Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
tom in 1859 The Carolina Central
railroad claims to he the successor Of
the Wilmington. Charlotte and Ruther-
fordton railroad. The county will
vigorously contest the claim, and big
lawsuit is the inevitable result.
MEASLES EPIDEMIC.
In Tredell county that common disease
measles has assumed dangerous and
deadly form. and the result is a number
of deaths. Entire families are pros
tratcd, and in one section (quite near
Statesyille) it is said that there are
hardly enough we'll people to nurse the
sick and bury the dead. The disease
also prevails somewhat in Alexander,
Rowan. and Mecklenburg counties.
RAILWAY AND OTHER NEWS.
President Bryan, Of the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad, is pushing
with the utmost dispatch the work of
laying new nil, and is getting the road
in better order than ever before. All
the new rail is steel. 1t will be laid
from Morehead to KinstOn by June LIST,
it is now expected.
II has been decided to unveil on May
10th the monument to the Confederate
soldiers who fell at the battle of Ben
tonsville-the last battle of the war.
Tie 10th is memorial-day in this State.
A number of prominent speakers will
be present. General Joseph E. John
ston has not yet replied to the letter
inviting him to deliver the principal
address. 1t will be remembered that
he commanded at this battle.
THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL
COLLEGE.
Next Mondsy Messrs. W. s. Prim-
rose and II. i. Fries, two of the mem
bers of the Board of Directors of the
college of Agriculture and the Ne
chanic Arts" leave on q special tour OF
observation, in the course of which
they expect to see number of the best
of such institutions. They will visit
the Miller School and the BlacksburS
School, in Virginia. Perhaps DR.. G.
W. Dabney, State chemist, may accom-
ranyt them. He has been sick some
days, but may be able to accompany
them on q tour which would certainly
interest him, for he has been a great
promoter of the college. Messrs. Prim-
rose and Fries will make n full report
of their observations ut the April meet
ing Of the Board OF Directors or trus-
tees and the State Board Of Agricul-
turc. These boards act jointly in SUI
peIvision Of the college.